Quotes About Peace

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”
― Bob Marley

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
― Fred Rogers

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
― John Lennon

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
― Dave Barry

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”
― Gautama Buddha

“War is over ... If you want it.”
― John Lennon

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcolm X

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
― Virginia Woolf

“How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models.”
― Bill Watterson

“There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi